Bob Dasenbrock came out with his young setter, Libby, to get a warmup on some quail. Libby found all the quail I set out, but a few got away, so maybe Bob needs a little warmup too.
Bill and Alan, w/ Whip and Harley First Pheasant Hunt of the season
Bill Warix and Alan Feezel started off the new game preserve season with a pheasant hunt with their two German Shorthairs, Whip and Harley. Warm weather and thick cover made the bird finding a little tough, but the dogs were able to track most of them down and give the pair some shooting opportunities.
QUGA Banquet
The Cumberland Trail Chapter of the Quail and Upland Game Alliance will be having its Annual Banquet this Saturday, Sept. 17. Doors open at 5 pm at the Vandalia Moose Lodge, tickets are $15 each. Fun times and lots of guns, prints, and stuff to win. I even have 2 hunts up for auction. One of Jeff Marshall’s pups will be up for auction. Come on out and support a great organization that puts on our Youth Pheasant Hunt and does a lot of local upland game habitat work.
Pointer Pups Ready to Go Now
Jeff Marshall has a nice litter of pointer pups from his dam, Homestead’s Jill and Fenton’s Elhew Bo. These pups are getting close to being 12 weeks old and there 3 males and 3 females available. Check out the pics, good looking dogs. Give Jeff Marshall a call 217-370-6176.
Homestead’s Jill
B’s Setter Litter from Jeff Marshall’s Homestead Kennels
Jeff Marshall bred his Derby Dog of the Year, B, with Brad Hire’s Roundabout. What came out is a nice litter of setter puppies, some tricolors and orange and whites. There are 5 females and 2 males still available and they approaching seven weeks of age soon. Some nice looking pups, check out the pics and give Jeff Marshall a call 217-370-6176.
Homestead’s B
Roundabout
Ava’s Setter Puppy
I went up to Jeff Marshall’s Homestead Kennels to get a closer look at all the Setter pups he has. Some great looking dogs. The first litter is about 9 to 10 weeks now and there is one orange and white female remaining for sale. The breeding is Ava and Brad Hire’s Roundabout. Check out the pics. Give Jeff Marshall a call 217-370-6176.
Ava
Roundabout
Puppies, puppies, puppies and more puppies
My friend and world class dog trainer, Jeff Marshall, has had a busy summer and a pile of English Setter and English Pointer puppies available. All of these dogs come from great hunting stock and are bred to have the desire, smarts and nose that awesome bird dogs require. Give Jeff Marshall a call 217-370-6176.
The first litter is out of Ava, a dog I had in my kennel last season and Brad Hire’s stud, Buck. They will be 7 weeks old and ready to go on Monday, August 1st. There are 4 females still available in the litter, 1 orange and white and the remainder tri-colored. The sire is out of a line with Shadow Oak Bo and Grid Iron
The other Setter litter is out of Jeff’s female B, which won the Open Derby Dog of the Year and sired by Buck. There are 5 females and 4 males, with 4 orange and white, and 5 tri-colored. Both parents are great hunters, this litter will be ready on August 23.
Jeff’s first pointer litter is out of Jim McNutt’s female Homestead Jill and sired by Bad River. He has one orange and white female, one liver and white female and three orange and white males ready now. They will be 8 weeks old on August 1. Bad River has some nice lineage with Up Close, Sinbad and bunch of Elhew blood in past generations.
The second pointer litter was just whelped on July 27, with the breeding of Jeff’s young female Georgia and bred with Bad River. I will let you know and get some more pics as the litter matures.
These puppies are priced right too. Great deal for the breeding behind these dogs, $550 for setters and $450 for pointer pups. Give Jeff Marshall a call 217-370-6176.
Jeff will also have started puppies available this winter, just in time for the second half of the game preserve season.
John and Elsie, Quail Hunt
John McIntosh came out for the last day of the season with his elder setter, Elsie, for a quail hunt. Eighty degrees and sunny, not ideal for dog work or bird flight, Elsie still had some nice finds and points. John knocked a few down with his 16 gauge, LC Smith, double barrell for an enjoyable finish to a great upland bird season.
Joe and Bill, Pheasant Hunt
My cousin, Joe Blythe, came out to hunt some pheasants on a beautiful, warm spring afternoon. Not ideal pheasant hunting conditions, but there was not much wind and the birds behaved fairly well. We started out chasing some down the fencerow and then out into the Clubhouse Field to find the rest. One hen disappeared into the Pasture Field, hopefully to find some cover and a rooster.
Dwayne and Bill, Pheasant Hunt
Dwayne Ritchey came out for a late afternoon pheasant hunt. I set out some birds in the unburnt half of the Clubhouse Field and got out Curly and Doo to find the birds. We found them all plus a couple extras running around the field. Only let one get away flying off into the warm, spring evening.